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A nice British family It’s hard to believe, but Jonah and I leave the UK to return to the USA to begin the visa renewal process just 3 weeks from tomorrow! We’re going home 8 days before the others to attend a family reunion, while the others are staying in the UK since Brodie’s school doesn’t get out until mid-July! In some ways, it feels like time has flown by, and in other ways, this has been the longest 10 months of our lives! It’s been great, rewarding, hard, fun, boring, exciting, frustrating, gloomy, enchanting, etc. and un-etc. ;) The Colchester Baptist Church, where EMI-UK's office is located. We're in the back corner and stare out the window at brick walls, but we're very grateful to the church for giving us two rooms to work in, rent free. This is also our home church - we really like the people of this church. We have a list a mile long to accomplish for year two, many of it renewing exactly what we had to do for year one. It’s an expensive undert...

The office has looked like a print shop lately as we got our latest project report out the door, on schedule!! I don't know if it's 'legal' to do this, but I'm going to blog out of order! That's because right before my last project trip, Alisha's parents came for a visit and took us out West in England to see a part of the country we'd never been to. The pictures are way better than anything I could describe, so I'll let them do the talking...with some minor commentary in the captions. It was sure a nice getaway from the miserable weather we had all Winter. It's improved some over the past month, but even still, high 40's and low 50's doesn't feel very much like May! As for a current update... *Our project report was finished and mailed out two weeks ago! The three interns did an awesome job of finishing it up and we are really excited about how it turned out. And most importantly, the ministry was very pleased as well, though...

The earliest reference to Colchester was in AD 77. It’s finally starting to feel like Spring here in Colchester! The temperature hasn’t been in the 30’s for over a week now, and we’ve actually had a number of days into the 60’s with plenty of sunshine. It’s amazing the difference it’s made. So, a good time to update on how we’re doing here. This picture was from a few weeks ago, before Spring arrived. We took the boys to the Clacton-on-Sea pier during their Spring Break...and froze! We did let them ride one ride - the roller coaster to the right. Given the weather, they were the only ones on the ride at the time! My niece Holli Morrow has been staying with us after graduating early from HS. She will have been here 8 weeks when she leaves in 10 days - it's going to be very dull without her around. First off, some news. Though perhaps you’ve already learned this from other bits we’ve put out on Facebook or by email, we’ve decided to stay in the UK for...